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I got this bulletin in my TAGGED account and I don't know if everybody knows the eal meaning of the word but this lass who wrote this post has clarified the true meaning of the word. So to those of us who look down to our fellow Pinoys who are JAPAYUKIs, think again...
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Let's start with the most controversial word in the Japanese which everyone knows and frequently used.

 

I remember a young girl, a neighbor of mine, taking care of her nephew. She told me that she wished he is a girl because she can be a 'Japayuki' when she grow up. That they will become rich and I saw the disappointment in her eyes, then she said 'Because he is a boy, he will become a "Jeepney driver".

 

The word 'JAPAYUKI' for your information means 'JAPAN BOUND'. It was mistakenly interpreted by mostly Japanese as their version of 'KARAYUKI'. Which means in the ancient times, when Japan was still striving, young Japanese women who travel to other countries ... to prostitute.

 

So everyone who set foot on the 'Land Of The Rising Sun' should be called 'JAPAYUKI' because that is the meaning of that. Whether you are a royalty, presidents, actors and actresses, billionnaires, businessmen, tourist, contract workers, ex-pats, entertainers and mostly trainees you are now branded as 'JAPAYUKI'.

 

I remember how my real state agents call his/her clients Japayuki and they try to explain that I'm different from them. Sorry, the damage is already done.

 

That my very own American citizen cousins believed that working as 'hostess' in Japan is prostitution. I tried to explain but it became a heated argument. So, I challenged him to come to Japan and I will bring him to every Philippine club, and show me where prostitution is taking place.

 

The reason why I wrote this is to serve as an eye-opener to mostly Filipinos. I received a lot of letters of complement praising me that at last they found a Filipina who has a great career in Japan and not the usual dirty job as they believed without proof. It doesn't please me... I have friends working in a club, I worked in a club... to find the truth (I'm writing a book about life in Japan and I have to try different jobs of every Filipina to have an actual experience).

 

In my opinion, the reason why most Filipinos are becoming sarcastic about the so-called 'Japayukis' is it's more on jealousy. They built big house for their family, opened a business, bought a car, send their siblings to school, support their Filipino husbands and boyfriends. With the salary alone, they cannot do it. There were dramas, sex, lies... who cares? Any girl in different countries are doing that... why do they concentrate with 'Japayukis' alone? Hookers in America go for $20. Prostitutes in the Philippines for... as cheap as P20? What about the Thais? Indonesians? Chinese? Russians? Romanians?

 

In Tokyo and Yokohama, you'll see a lot of Chinese, Russians, and Romanians standing by the road and waiting for customers... but you cannot find a single Filipina there. They might have more than 1 boyfriend who give them monthly support, so what? Anywhere in the world everyone is having sex... mostly without receiving a single cent. Some do it for fun, others for their biological needs, can we blame these 'Japayukis' for using their brain?

 

I don't criticize anyone as long as they have a purpose in life...

 

Next time you heard someone mention the word 'Japayuki' I hope you'll share what you learned from me...
 

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The term is almost outdated.

Japayuki, like many other words suddenly finding currency in mainstream language, was coined to capture the emergence of a social phenomenon, namely the influx of young Filipina entertainers to Japan throughout most of the 90s up to about three years ago when kogyo (entertainment) visa was practically banned.

At its peak, 100,000 young Filipinas, some pre-legal, streamed to Japan every year to provide relaxation and entertainment to hardworking Japanese salary-men, many at company expense.

In the Japanese language, if you add -yuki to the name of a place as a suffix, like Tokyo-yuki or Osaka-yuki, it means bound for that place.

But clearly, Japayuki was intended from the start as a word with a negative nuance to refer to the young Filipinas coming to Japan to ply their trade at night. A more neutral word would be Nippon-yuki, or Nihon-yuki, but this never gained currency in the mass media or in everyday language.

There was a time when the word became so widely associated with Filipinos that when I introduced myself, people would invariably ask, "Which band or which club do you work for?"

Now, the word is fading into obsolescence, thanks to the immigration law that upgraded the entertainment profession into some kind of highly skilled trade. You should present a diploma from an internationally accredited entertainment school to be able to qualify as one. Many of the so-called Japayukis have dissolved into Japanese society as ordinary housewives. The last four years have seen a dramatic spike in Filipino-Japanese marriages, real or arranged, as entertainers faced prospects of not having their 3 to 6-month contracts renewed under the new regulation.

These days, you seldom hear the word hereabouts.



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I think this word will retain its negative nuance, even if it is not as frequently used as before.

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It means 10 thousand yen bill (about 5000 pesos) that doesn't fit the width of Philippine-made wallets kay lapad ra man.

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makauli unta kag kahon-kahon nga lapad, da bins. kay maayo man tingali ka mopalurat anang gagmatoy nga mata sa mga hapon. hehehe.

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